Part One:

Our goal for our assignment in our Visual Studies class was to take images that include Gestalt’s Principles and explore the question of “how do you make an image?”

I went about this goal by exploring congress, and taking images that include both repetition and continuity. Then, I arranged all six pictures together, in order to achieve a similar pattern. I experimented with angles, objects, lines, and light. Eventually I ended up narrowing my photographs down to the ones I found were the best and used them in my project. The question of “how do you make an image?” I find is too ambiguous. There are many factors that play into the creation of an image and therefore thought that ignored to make an image, one must use a variety of elements, such as lighting, point of view and incorporating one or more of Gestalt’s principles into the image.

Part Two:

In the six photographs that I chose for my project, there are both strengths and weaknesses. A bold strength in the photographs is the strong repetition and continuity within them and also how well they work together side by side. Although they are strong together, their weakness is the fact that they are not too interesting apart. The composition of the photographs could be improved by having a person view my photographs in order to help me see my downfalls which will allow me to fix them. The project could have been more upfront and clear. I was confused throughout the entire project on what the actual objective was and did not find out until the very end